After reading a lot of stuff about vCOPS and playing around with Custom Dashboards. I start building my own dashboards. Some for VM monitoring some for Cluster or Datastore some based on Super-Metrics some with default metrics. So I decide to create a dashboard with all necessary things I want to know about my environment.

VMware released today a new Version of the vCenter Operations Manager Suite – Version 5.8 . With vCOPS you can monitor your virtual infrastructure, covering performance, capacity and with adapter packages you can integrate hardware infrastructure like NetApp & EMC Storage.